Meat-slicing machine



- 'L'. L. BLOCH MEAT SLI'CING MACHINE Filed-Oct. ,1927 Q2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR LEO/YARD L BLocH ATTORNEY L. L. BLOCH MEAT SLICING MACHINE Filed Oct. 8, i927 z: Sheets-Sheet VATTORNE Patented Oct. 23, 1928.

NT OFFICE.

LEONARD L. BLOCK, NEW YORK, N. Y.

MEAT-SLICI'NG MACHINE.

Application filed October 8,1927.

This invention relates to meat slicing machines, more particularly to that type of machine wherein the stock is mounted upon a reciprocating slide or table and is carried '5 thereby in the path of a revolving knife or cutter.

' One of the objects of the invention is to provide a new and improved means, whereby a hand operated slicing machine may-be converted into a power driven machine at a minimum of cost, and whereby the converted machine will operate in substantially the same manner and with an efliciency equal to machines wherein the power driving mechanism is incorporated in the machine as originally produced.

Other objects. and aims of the invention, more or less specific than those referred to above, will be in part obvious and in part pointed out in the course of the following description of the elements, combinations, arrangements of parts and applications of principles, constituting the inventiongf an the scope ofprotection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein I have illustrated a preferred form of em bodiment of my invention,

Figure 1 is a side elevational view, showing a slicing machine equipped with my invention; p

Figure 2 is a side elevational view, partly in section, showing the manner of mounting the motor upon the slicing machine, and

Figure 3 is a similar view, showing the manner in which the slicing machine is ilriven from the motor.

Referring now to the drawings, wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views thereof, the reference numeral 1 denotes the base or. standard upon which the slicing machine denoted generally at 2 is mounted, said slicing machine being provided with a rotary cutter 3 driven by a system of shafts and bevelled gearing indicated at 3, from the wheel 4. i no Thawheel 4 which is a balance wheel, is mounted upon lie's'haftfi shovn in the dotted lines in Figure 1 of the drawings. The slicing machine which is illustrated by means of the pale lines in Figure 1 of the drawings, is of usual hand driven construction, in that the meat or other food product to be sliced, is mounted upon a reciprocating table and is carried intermittently into engagement with the rotary cutting member 3, suitable a switch arm 23 is Serial No 224,789.

feed mechanism 5 being employed to feed the food product into position to be sliced by the constantly rotating cutting member 3.

The frame of the slicing machine is pro vided with a downwardly extending flange 7 Located on theinner side of said flange and suitably clamped. thereto as by means of the bolts 8, is a plate 9,'said plate being provided with a flanged or raised portion 10 which extends laterally, face 11 lies in the same plane with the outer surface of the flange 7 The flange 10 also engages with the lower edge of the flange 7... This construction, it will be noted, insures aiirm mounting for the driving mechanism.

The reference numeral 12 denotes the housing of the driving motor, said housing being provided with a T-shaped flange 13, the face of which lies in engagement with the, outer surface of the flange '7, and the face of the flange 11 of the plate 9.

The clamp bolts 8 and 14; extend through .the flange 13 of the motor, the flange of the frame of the machine and the-plate 9, whereby all the said parts-are clamped together and the motor supported rigidly in position upon the frame of the machine.

The driving wheel 4 of the machine is the usual hand or balance wheel, the handle of which has been removed. The balance wheel, 1 is provided with a peripheral groove or channel 15, which in the present instance, receives a link belt 16 which rides upon a pulley 17, is mounted upon a stud shaft 18 ]ournalled in the housing 12 of the motor, said shaft being also provided with a. gear wheel 19 driven by a pinion 20 fixed upon the drive shaft 21 of the armature of the motor.

An electric switch box 22 provided with 12 of the motor. It will accordingly be seen that-I-have provided a simple mechanism, whereby a hand operated slicing machine may be conveniently converted into an efliciient power operated one/atAaimodicum of cost, all that is necessary to be done, being to provide apertures in the flange 7 of the frame of the machine, remove the operating handle from the drive or wheel 4, and groove the latter to convert it into a driven pulley wheel. The exposed operative parts are covered as by means 0 the housing 24 having the cars 25 bolted to another housing 26 which forms a casing for the gear wheel 19 of the shaft 18.

so that its front 1 mounted upon the housing The attachment is neat and attractive in appearance and is so located upon the machine as to be within the convenient reach of the operator thereof. Moreover the mounting of the inotor is such that vibration is reduced to amlnimum. v v

As many changes could be made in this construction without departing from the scopeof the following claims, it is intended that all matter contained in the above descript1on or shown in the accompanying drawings,

shall be interpreted as illustrative only and" vnot in a'limiting sense. 1

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire bu secure by Letters Patent, 1szr 1. In a sl1c1ngmach1ne,-a frame having a downwardly projecting flange, a plate fittedto the rear surface ofsaid flan e, a motor plate" tted t0 the housing having a flanged front surface of said flange, means for clamping together sald plate and the flange of the frame, a driving motor. carried within said balance wheel for housing having a driving-pulley, a grooved driving said iii chine and a belt extended between said pulley and said balance wheel.

2. In a slicing machine, a frame having a downwardly projecting flange, a plate fitted slicing ma tothe rear surface of said flange, said plate having a forwardly projecting flange which engages-the lower surface of the flange of the frame, a motor housing havin a flanged plate fitted to the front surface 0 said flange,

means for clamping together said plate and the flange of the frame, a driving motor carried within said housing having pulley, said slicing machine and a belt extending between said pulley and said balancewheel.

a driving e 3. In a slicing machine,'a frame having a' downwardlypr'ojecting flange, a plate fitted to the rear surface of said flange,

a grooved balance wheel for driving saidplate having a forwardly projecting flange which i engages the lower surface of the flange of the frame, a motor housing havinga flanged plate fitted to the front surface of said flange, the plate of the motor housin edge of the flange of sai first plate, means for clamping together said plates and the also engaging the p 

